From michael@i-magery.com Fri Jul 6 02:35:38 2018 From: Michael Cummins To: cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org Subject: [FoRK] Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2018 02:35:38 +0000 Message-ID: <172289262250.3881296.9372545577246191463.generated@mail.pglaf.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============2807977682794370223==" --===============2807977682794370223== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I read this on Boing Boing today: ------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/03/secret-copyright-tre.html Secret copyright treaty leaks. It's bad. Very bad. The internet chapter of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a secret copyright treaty whose text Obama's administration refused to disclose due to "national security" concerns, has leaked. It's bad. It says: * That ISPs have to proactively police copyright on user-contributed material. This means that it will be impossible to run a service like Flickr or YouTube or Blogger, since hiring enough lawyers to ensure that the mountain of material uploaded every second isn't infringing will exceed any hope of profitability. * That ISPs have to cut off the Internet access of accused copyright infringers or face liability. This means that your entire family could be denied to the internet -- and hence to civic participation, health information, education, communications, and their means of earning a living -- if one member is accused of copyright infringement, without access to a trial or counsel. * That the whole world must adopt US-style "notice-and-takedown" rules that require ISPs to remove any material that is accused -- again, without evidence or trial -- of infringing copyright. This has proved a disaster in the US and other countries, where it provides an easy means of censoring material, just by accusing it of infringing copyright. * Mandatory prohibitions on breaking DRM, even if doing so for a lawful purpose (e.g., to make a work available to disabled people; for archival preservation; because you own the copyrighted work that is locked up with DRM) ------------------------------------------------------------ According to Wikipedia, the ACTA begins its 6th round of negotiation today in Seoul. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Counterfeiting_Trade_Agreement I imagine we'll be hearing more about this in the days to come. _______________________________________________ FoRK mailing list http://xent.com/mailman/listinfo/fork ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl leitl http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE --===============2807977682794370223==--